Adam Sandler Tops Forbes' Most Overpaid Actor List For The Second Year In A Row
For the second year in a row, Sandler tops our list of the Most Overpaid Actors in Hollywood. We looked at the last three movies of the biggest stars in Hollywood and calculated what they were paid and what the movies earned to come up with what is essentially a return on investment number for each star.
We estimate that for every $1 Sandler was paid, he returned an average of $3.20.
To compile our rundown of Hollywood’s Most Overpaid Actors we use earnings estimates from our Celebrity 100 list. We look at the last three films each actor starred in before June 2014, since that was the end of our time frame for the Celeb 100. We don’t include animated films or movies where the actor appears in a cameo or a very small role, or movies that were released on fewer than 2,000 screens.
We then look at the budget and revenue for each film (using numbers from Box Office Mojo and other sources) to come up with operating income. We add together the total compensation for each star on the three movies and the operating income from each movie and then divide to come up with the final return on investment number.
Ranking second behind Sandler is Johnny Depp, whose past three films returned $4.10 for every $1 he was paid. Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean series is one of the highest grossing of all time with $3.7 billion in box office gross for the first four films. And partially thanks to Depp’s quirky turn as the Mad Matter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, that film earned $1 billion at the box office.
Two actors who we were surprised to see turn up on the Most Overpaid list were Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock. Both stars earned millions by taking shares of the profit of incredibly high-performing movies like Magic Mike (which grossed $167 million on a budget of $7 million) and Gravity ($716 million on a $100 million budget).
When we crunched the numbers, both actors appeared overpaid. Tatum returned an estimated $6.70 for every $1 paid and Bullock returned an estimated $9 for every $1 paid.
But when you break down the number a bit further, they only appear overpaid because of our methodology.
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they're practically saying "our system makes no sense, so we're just going to hate on the easy targets and leave out the rest".